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Brooklyn (usa)

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Brooklyn ranks 11th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. The most famous people from Brooklyn are Abraham Maslow, Anthony Fauci, and Milton Friedman. The most famous people who died in Brooklyn are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Elias Howe. Brooklyn has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many actors, and musicians. Brooklyn is located in United States.

Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, including the architecturally significant Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to Staten Island by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1810 and 2002, Brooklyn was the birth place of 498 globally memorable people, including Abraham Maslow, Anthony Fauci, and Milton Friedman. Additionaly, 43 globally memorable people have passed away in Brooklyn including Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Elias Howe.

People Born in Brooklyn

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People Deceased in Brooklyn

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Brooklyn were actors (186), singers (43), musicians (26), basketball players (25), and writers (22),  while most who died were actors (5), musicians (5), writers (4), social activists (4), and singers (4).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Brooklyn, including John Saxon, Louis Gossett Jr., and Martin Landau. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Brooklyn, including Eli Wallach, John Saxon, and Louis Gossett Jr..

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Brooklyn since 1700.